New nForce2 MCPs Available In September

According to The INQ, samples of NVIDIA’s new nForce2 MCP chips* will be delivered to its motherboard manufacturers in the next ten days. The INQ’s Mike Magee says volume production will begin in August and the new southbridges will be available in volume in September:

MCP-S has two S-ATA ports with integrated PHY, MCP-S-RAID includes RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1, while MCP-S1000 adds Nvidia Gigabit Ethernet. This will allow motherboard makers to differentiate their offerings.

MCP-S-RAID has that little extra hardware accelerated touch.

The MCP-S1000 is aimed at what Nvidia describes as the “de luxe” end of the marketplace, with a discrete PC based Gigabit Ethernet interface, a little like its hero, Intel. Throughput on the “de luxe” version will be around 0.7Gb/s.

Nvidia gets first Nforce 2 MCP-S/1000 samples @ The Inquirer
* See nForce MCP-S due later this year